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Related, what’s the deal with those weird manufacturers names?
In order to sell on Amazon, you have to have a registered trademark. Nothing is easier to trademark than a random string of letters with little resemblance to real words, so you get lots of random keysmashes like ZGGCDor Dgpiod, combinations of random phonemes like nertpow or vovoly, or smushed together random words like Joyoldelf or Wishpig.
tbh nertpow is very catchy and you could absolutely sell knock off nerf products under that name
Usually Chinese resellers creating dozens of random letter names that look official. They resell AliExpress items at a premium to westerners lol.
Amazon is slow to take down scams and low quality products because they sell sponsored listings and prime partnership which boosts products made by actual companies.
When I was looking for a whetstone the amazon results were actually sorta funny. They're selling all the same thing just with a stamped company name on it but the price varies wildly.
Yeah what I often do is just buy what I need for Amazon, make sure it’s prime and return eligible, buy it again for like 4% of the Amazon price on AliExpress, then return the Amazon product once the Ali item arrives lol
Hey I have that whetstone
How did you even choose a product from this list?
If a brand has a website that isn't just Alibaba listings and an About section with no address, then it's probably a real product
Something something chinese branded trademark supported by amazon.
Edit: someone already posted the nytimes article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-copyright.html